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Dan Dare: Mission of the Earthmen Vol. 1 by Eric Eden

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


As a matter of full disclosure, this is the first Dan Dare story I've ever read. I picked it up because I listed to the B7 Media Audio Dramas.

This book collects two stories, both have great artwork and beautiful reproductions of the original magazine stories.

The first, "Mission of the Earthmen" is a bit tedious as Dan Dare and his sidekick Digby crashland on the planet and get involved in trying to end a war. The characters are uninterest, the story is pretty tedious and unimaginative.

"The Solid Space Mystery" is more like it as Dan and Digby have to solve a mystery back in their solar system as ships are being destroyed to invisible "solid space" and it's up to Dan to get things sorted. This is a really fun, sci-fi adventure and the type of thing I expected when I picked up Dan Dare.

Overall, the greatness of the second story more than compensates for the first lacklustre installment and the art is consistently good on both.



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Dan Dare, Vol. 1: He Who Dares by Peter Milligan

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


The focus of this book is that Dan Dare's archenemy, the Mekon has been captured and claims he's trying to reform and so he sits around growing plants and on occasion offers some advice to Dare.

If you've never read/heard of Dan Dare, this story is as boring as watching paint dry. If you have read Dan Dare or heard the audio adventures, than this book fails to capture the excitement of the original and isn't what people want when they read a Dan Dare book. Titan's reprinting the original books and honestly, it would be better to read those instead.



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